Health and Illness in Close Relationships

The first book to give an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health and illness in close relationships.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. The Unique Context of Health and Illness in Close Relationships: 1. Defining health and illness; 2. Close relationship processes; 3. Attributes of the health and illness context for relationship processes; Part II. Health/Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes: 4. Relationships as buffering or exacerbating health/illness outcomes; 5. Reconsidering embodiment and language for illness; 6. Relationship theories applied to illness transitions; Part III. Integrated Theory of Health / Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes: 7. Theorizing close relationships and health/illness trajectories: co-created, co-generative, and systematic processes; 8. Integrated co-generative, systematic processes and considerations for interdisciplinary understanding.

About the author

Ashley P. Duggan is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department and the Medical Humanities Program at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is also the Co-Director of the Department of Family Medicine Research Division at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Summary

Written for academic researchers, students, and health professionals, this is the first volume to review and synthesize the current literature on health and illness in close relationships. The author provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes.

Product details

• Authors: Ashley P Duggan, Ashley P. Duggan, Ashley P. (Boston College Duggan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108419932
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41993-2
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Advances in Personal Relationships; Advances in Personal Relations; Advances in Personal Relations; Advances in Personal Relationships
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Health psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Medical Sociology